Another week, another set of tabs. Been getting out and walking a lot. I’m trying to keep it at a mile a day, average. I do notice it brings my BP down for hours afterwards, sometimes rather dramatically. Doctor doubled my originally low-dose of beta blockers, but I’m not convinced it’s doing much of anything. I got the most results from the diuretic. People keep telling me it takes a bit to get the med cocktail right, but I’m not the most patient patient. Anyways, the news:

A modern day Rorke’s Drift. These guys deserve recognition, and not what they got, which was having their bravery buried to cover up that the British Army dropped in undersupplied soldiers into a no-win situation.

Bloomberg endorsing Toomey isn’t a surprise. McGinty is going to get creamed and beaten, BADLY, even though it looks as though Hillary is gonna win the Presidency and PA. Likewise as stated in this Weekly News Conglomerate Page, Hillary winning is going to be, more so, Trump losing, not her winning. Bloomberg must sense that Hillary won’t be carrying coattails down ballot. The GOP is still gonna hold the House of Representatives, and most likely as being sensed by Bloomberg and others, the Senate.Bloomberg knows how much of a disaster it would be to endorse a disasterous candidate like McGinty.

Right now the Senate is 54-46 GOP. It will likely be 52-48 or 51-49 GOP after 2016. Looking at the Nevada 2016 Senate race, the GOP looks like their gonna pick up Harry Reid’s seat, and at best, the Dems are only gonna net the Wisconsin and Illinois Senate seats. Russ Feingold (D-WI) was decent on gun rights in the past, and will likely remain that way. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) are both disasters on gun rights, so it really isn’t a loss there.

Re-ally. I’ve been seeing things that imply a successful Hillary election will devastate the GOP Senate delegation. IF the GOP can retain a majority in the Senate as well as their nigh-unassailable (this decade) House majority, that could forestall a lot of issues.

OTOH, I doubt the GOP Senate majority will come out and say “we don’t HAVE to have 9 SCOTUS judges; lets just let it contract to 7.”

Synopsis from IMDB: “If there’s one thing that the men of Rockford Texas love as much as their women, it’s their guns. But when a gun incident at a neighborhood school spurs one stay at home mom, Jenna (Andrea Anders), to rethink Rockford’s obsessive gun culture, life in this idyllic town is turned upside-down. Much to the chagrin of her husband, (Matt Passmore), Jenna ignites a movement by recruiting the women to withhold sex from the men until every gun in Rockford is vanquished. A wild and hilarious showdown ensues between the sexes. As tensions and libidos rise, the men and women of Rockford must decide what’s really important: keeping the peace or getting a piece.”

This is completely off-topic, but it comes from looking at the horrors described in the article about Chinese incentives for running people over again and again.

One of the bait-click links (that, in full disclosure, I didn’t follow) offered 20 horrible photos of the Vietnam War…and a random thought occurred to me: we’re *always* bombarded by horrible things Americans did in that war. I do not recall ever seeing photos or descriptions of what horrible things happened to Americans, or what horrible things that the North Vietnamese did to South Vietnamese.

To be sure, one reason is simply one of access: our reporters are going to be behind American lines, and not enemy lines. But I’m also sure that the narrative “the Vietnam War is evil, and Americans are evil, so we need to show Americans and the world just how evil they are” played an important part in it as well.

I’m sure that this can somehow be brought back to on-topic, but I’m going to leave that as an exercise to the reader…